Independent U.S. federal agency that delivers mail and packages nationwide, including election ballots, under congressional oversight.
Amazon plans to reach about 39,400 US ZIP codes with its own delivery network by 2029, a goal drawn from its contingency plan for losing the Postal Service. USPS and other carriers would then bargain with a customer that has its own route into nearly every ZIP code.
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Brookings' Elena Patel estimates the Postal Service's one-truck rural schedule could add 43,000 to 55,000 mail-ballot rejections in November. It builds on this year's primaries in three states and puts the heaviest risk on rural Western voters.
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A phishing email impersonating Belgium's bpost asks for EUR4.95 in unpaid customs duty. Malwarebytes says the pages behind the demand are built to harvest bank and card credentials, and the fee is the pretext.
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Monday evening's order in USPS v. California stops the late-August mail-ballot rules that election officials said they could not implement in time, and officers from both parties say the 2026 cycle now proceeds unchanged.
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Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence faults the implementation calendar and allows that the final USPS regulation may be lawful. The rule the Postal Service already finalized stays available for a cycle with more lead time.
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An internal forecast reviewed by Business Insider puts Amazon's own network at 88.7% of its US packages by 2029, ahead of the company's earlier plan. What UPS and USPS still carry stays roughly flat while Amazon's own volume absorbs the growth.
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Blumenthal's whistleblower has work starting June 15, stopping June 25 and restarting July 29, which leaves 58 usable days inside a three-month window, plus a design where one bad scan holds a whole batch.
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The complaint Sen. Richard Blumenthal released describes three ballot mail IT systems built in weeks and promoted through test environments unfinished, with state election officials left to reconcile every discrepancy before mail moves.
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The 6-3 dismissal turned on who may sue, not on whether the order is lawful. The federally built voter lists survive, scheduled to reach states 60 days before an election.
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The rule takes effect immediately and will not be implemented until the Supreme Court rules, which leaves election offices and their vendors preparing for a federal list layer either way.
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